Spymaster's Vault is absurd. A land that has the reminder text "draw X" will in no way ever be abused, no sir. Yea I think people are sleeping on this card. The more I noodle on it the more I think it is off the chain good. It's...not just your creatures. It's less good with wraths unless...

That looks like a sensible path. I long since cut both of those cards due to cost.

capitacommunist I was listing the negatives so of course it seems one sided :D I disagree that you only should evaluate the typical scenario. Especially with the typical scenario being confounded by people being dumb. I'd suggest evaluating it based on floor, ceiling, typical play in your meta and ...

So I have some issues with the necrobloom's power level but man I do love seeing a good lands legend that isn't blue. The deckbuilding is so different. I also love how necrobloom's abilities synergize so strongly with Tranquil Thicket et. al. which lets you really punish blue decks who want to inter...

I'm not sure why you think a "true dilemma" requires any of that. You can still act in self-interest without having a firm grasp on the outcomes. Faulty input doesn't change motivation. The concept of a prisoner's dilemma requires those things at least, er, classically. It can be a lower ...

The whole point is that it's thought of as a prisoners dilemma but it isn't really. In a true dilemma you have a reasonable idea of the outcome and it doesn't get progressively worse when each person defects. And it doesn't necessarily get better for you to defect. another important difference is yo...

The floor of Skullclamp is you have an artifact and no creatures, or no creatures with low enough toughness to die on equip and no sac outlet. The floor of Splendid Reclamation is you have no lands in your yard and are holding a 4-mana sorcery. The floor of Genesis Wave is you don't have a ton of m...

"not good in most scenarios" isn't an argument it's a value judgment :D

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The floor is way lower a- it's one sided sphere of resistance that makes you the target :D

PrimevalCommander wrote: ↑

3 weeks ago

This doesn't have that pesky word "another" so can it target itself with the death trigger to send it to the top of library?

yar, has to even if no other targets (which can be awkward if you'd rather dredge him).

pzbw7z wrote: ↑

3 weeks ago

Songs of the Damned has been a rock star for me.

yea, songs is dumb in most versions of this deck. Cabal Ritual is almost surely correct in most shells I think.

This card is probably the best of the dredge cards, you can do a lot of filthy stuff with it. GGT and Stinky have their space.

There were quite a few games where I looped this with Solemn Simulacrum and a sac outlet :D Can do similar with Skullclamp. Clamping thug to dredge thug is so stupid.

I get hating it for being obnoxious, or not loving it as a late game draw, but the arguments otherwise just don't hold up. The only other argument I made is that it has a lower ceiling than synergistic draw--costing more mana doesn't mean anything if you win :D Summing up - it's not a great topdeck...

With Liliana, Untouched by Death enough mana just equals game over too which is gross. Chains like... get Lili get culling get songs of the damned get cabal ritual get altar gg type stuff lol. Definitely a reason to think on culling the weak at least and maaaybe cabal ritual. -- Generally speaking i...

Six - First of all, i'm curious about the implications of this card lore wise, but this isnt the place for it, so I'll stay in another lane. This is a great card in Loam decks right? @pokken is this something you would think about in your FoD deck? I'm considering Six is pretty solid. I am not sure...

Yeah, I think that card is a slamdunk being able to get lands. I don't want to play many 4 drops but grim tutor on a zombie is stupid. Pop it in an intuition package with Dread Return and Gravecrawler and it's basically a backup Sevinne's Reclamation (as a way to get Phyrexian Altar ) most of the ti...

yeti1069 wrote: ↑

3 weeks ago

It's just bad right after a board wipe.

Even after a wipe it can get entomb or gravecrawler so that's legit. Or land tax or top. Or vamp or etutor. So not a massively bad fail state. Or
Skullclamp.

Zombie tutor seems pretty good.

I think it's fine to spend more mana depending on the deck; I just threw out 12 as a number for whatever reason but I'm more on stuff like: - skullclamp where I'm in control and gonna draw a bajillion cards - splendid reclamation where I'll both draw and ramp - genesis wave where I'll end the game -...

Doesn't this apply to all sources of card draw? There're a ton of card draw options that either get you specific cards or get you a bunch of cards right now, or let you look at a lot of cards. Or convert at a much higher rate. Personally I'm far more on bomb draw these days just because I'd rather ...

Color me excited for the whole cycle :D What I need is more decks with farking fliplands.

I am at the point with most decks where - 1) upgrades are incremental 2) there are so many cards I want to play that would be perfectly fine Part of that I think is that there's just such a huge volume of high power cards now -- I've been lately cutting tutors extensively to just play more good card...

I'm still seeing what I'd ball park as 30-60 second load times on basically everything fwiw. Posts, page loads, etc.

Posts seem to be improving though!

I enjoy Cosima, God of the Voyage // The Omenkeel a lot. It's hard to build around because the color doesn't really support it, but it's a card that can do a metric ton of work in a UGx landsy deck (which is kinda one of my spirit animals). So it provides a couple fairly fun interesting ways to buil...

It might just be me but it's only MTGN for me. Feels like some database based performance issues if I had to guess; seen a lot of random MySQL down messages, and it seems to dog out when going into threads particularly, or enumerating threads in a forum. Forum lists also a bit sluggish.

Freestrider Lookout felt absurd. The miss rate was a little higher than I would like, but I got a ton of triggers off it from Armored Scrapgorger. I'm not sure if it would have been as good without a free crime trigger every turn, but I also had other crime enablers. I mean...samut can do crime in ...